And yet no better man could have been chosen, whether for politics or fighting; if only they had had the sense to protect him." Having delivered himself of this eulogy, my friend dropped his exhausted cigarette, lit another, and appeared again absorbed in the triangulation of his matrimonial problem.

I imagined him weighing the question whether he should part with Zobeida and Zuleika and keep Anima, or send Zuleika and Amina about their business, and keep Zobeida to be a light in his household.

At last Kiramat Ali, on the watch in the verandah, announced the saices with the horses, and we descended.
I had expected that a man of Isaacs' tastes and habits would not be stingy about his horseflesh, and so was prepared for the character of the animals that awaited us.

They were two superb Arab stallions, one of them being a rare specimen of the weight-carrying kind, occasionally seen in the far East.

Small head, small feet, and feather-tailed, but broad in the quarters and deep in the chest, able to carry a twelve-stone man for hours at the stretching, even gallop, that never trembles and never tires; surefooted as a mule, and tender-tempered as a baby.
So we mounted the gentle creatures and rode away.